95-98 Kazahkova & Dmitriev pairs considering they really won the 97 grand prix final and worlds, to go with their 96 European and 98 olympic titles they were given the actual gold medal for. Urmanov mens giving him the 97 worlds he would have won without his injury, 98 olympic silver he wins without his injury, and 98 worlds he wins without his injury, to go with 96 grand prix final and 97 European titles. Tara for women. Gritschuk & Platov for dance.

99-2002 Irina Slutskaya for women just barely ahead of Kwan. Yagudin for men. Berezhnaya for pairs. Anissina for dance.

2003-2006 Belbin & Agosto for dance since they were robbed of all of Navka & Kostomarova's titles. Cohen for women since she was most consistent skater of quad, even if Slutskaya and Arakawa won more important things. Plushenko for men.

2007-2010 Virtue & Moir for dance. Pang & Tong for pairs since they won 2 worlds and should have won 2010 olympics. Kim for women. Joubert for men since he medalled at every worlds and every europeans.

2011-2014 Kim for women. Virtue & Moir for dance due to overscoring and unearned titles of Davis & White. Volosozhar & Trankov for pairs. Hanyu for men if he wins worlds, Chan if he does not.

Sale & Pelletier are frauds. This poster was probably just going by medals, but their medals are hollow and mean nothing as they deserved none of them. I would say they were the 4th best pairs team of the quad behind B&S, Shen & Zhao, and Petrova & tikhonov. Their best was better than P&T and maybe S&Z, but those teams were a force the whole quad, unlike Sale & Pelletier who only were the last 2 seasons and skipped the 2002 worlds.

If iconic ability is your basis then it should be S&Z for 2003-2006 too. T&M were probably the best team of that quad in wins and consistently strong skating, but there is nothing iconic about them. They were effecient and won, but left no mark or contribution to skating, and few would care to look back over any of their programs.

Which D&S dance team are you referring to for 2007-2010? I would guess either Delobel & Schoenfelder or Denkova & Stayviski, since Domnina & Shabalin also didnt leave any mark with their programs or style beyond their medals.

It feels funny that Kwan who might be the best ever might also not have been the best skater of any quad. I agree with Tara in 95-98, Irina in 99-2002 as the top skaters of those quads. I dont know who is for 2003-2006, but it isnt Kwan for sure.

Pairs: Totmianina-Marinin
Men: Plushenko
Dance: Denkova & Stayviski or Delobel & Schoenfelder (I do think N&K deserved most of their big titles, but I dont think they are the best, he is a fairly weak technician)
Ladies: Arakawa or Cohen (Slutskaya didnt even skate over half the quad, and didnt win worlds and Olympics like inconsistent Shiz)

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Sale & Pelletier are frauds. This poster was probably just going by medals, but their medals are hollow and mean nothing as they deserved none of them.
My thoughts exactly.

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Throughout their career B/S were much better pair. But I believe that in 2002 OG S/P skated better, just on this individual event.

Arakawa shouldnt be given skater of the quad for 03-06. Normally a skater winning worlds and the Olympics would be a slam dunk but she has to be an exception. She had literally only 2 good events the whole quad. Her grand prix record is embarassing, her other showings at worlds awful, and she didnt even come better than 3rd at her own Nationals that period. I would put Slutskaya, Cohen, and maybe even Kwan and Asada all above her.

Arakawa shouldnt be given skater of the quad for 03-06. Normally a skater winning worlds and the Olympics would be a slam dunk but she has to be an exception. She had literally only 2 good events the whole quad. Her grand prix record is embarassing, her other showings at worlds awful, and she didnt even come better than 3rd at her own Nationals that period. I would put Slutskaya, Cohen, and maybe even Kwan and Asada all above her.

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Cohen never delivered a clean LP domestically or internationally, never won a World Championship title although it was served up to her on a silver (forgive the pun) platter, and finished behind Shizuka at the Olympics, yet you believe she deserves best skater of the quad over Arakawa? . . . seriously, put the crack pipe down. Asada had 1 sterling senior level performance at a major event in the quad, the 2006 Grand Prix Final, to defeat Slutskaya; nowhere close to the prestige of winning a World title over both Cohen and Kwan and winning an Olympic title over Cohen and Slutskaya. I like Irina, but she skated abysmally in the LP at the 2006 Olympics and many still argue that she shouldn't have finished on the podium in Torino, which I tend to agree with. Also, Slutskaya only had 1 stunning performance at a major event during this quad on home nation ice at the 2005 Worlds to win that title. I like Michelle too, but the 2006 quad was none too kind to her; she won a deserved World title on home nation ice in 2003, sneaked in for the World bronze in 2004 after a very shaky QR skate and bizarre time deduction in the SP, but valiantly finished 2nd in the LP after a streaker tried to disrupt her mental preparation before her skate. The disappointments for Michelle in 2005 and 2006 are too evident to go unnoticed though. Maybe it would be better to say that there was no true dominant lady in the 2006 quad, but if I am forced to name someone, it is easily Shizuka as her wins (2004 Worlds in Germany and 2006 Olympics in Italy) did not come with the benefit of home nation ice and she easily skated better overall than any other lady at the 2006 Olympics over both programs.

Sorry that was an accident. I was still thinking 95-98 when I put him first. Yeah you are right, 3rd best of 99-2002 was probably Goebel. Stojko was probably 4th just ahead of Eldredge, Honda, and Weiss.

I hate having to pick Slutskaya as the best of both the 99-2002 and 2003-2006 quads as I hate her skating but objectively speaking she was probably the best skater of both quads overall. 2003-2006 by default mostly though. 99-2002 she atleast had strong competition with Kwan for that title. 2003-2006 nobody really deserves it, but she gets it by default. Had Cohen just won the crappy 2006 worlds it would probably be her since she was the most consistent and overall good of the quad.

Pretty good. I would put Eldredge over Stojko for 95-98, Lipinski over Kwan for 95-98, Slutskaya over Kwan for 99-2002, Kim all alone for 07-2010, D&W all alone for 2011-2014, V&T all alone for 2011-2014. Which D&S are referring to for 07-2010, they are like 3 or 4 of them.

Probably cause Yagudin's PR strategy leading up to the Olympics painted him as an underdog. But really, he just had one bad season (00-01) and it wasn't even that bad. He skated very well even when he lost to Plushenko, except for worlds when he was injured. Either way, Plushenko was too young in the first part of that quad to really be dominant.

Probably cause Yagudin's PR strategy leading up to the Olympics painted him as an underdog. But really, he just had one bad season (00-01) and it wasn't even that bad. He skated very well even when he lost to Plushenko, except for worlds when he was injured. Either way, Plushenko was too young in the first part of that quad to really be dominant.

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Well in the 99-2000, 2000-2001, and first half of the 2001-2002 seasons Plushenko lost only once- 2000 worlds where he had a melt down. Even when Yagudin skated very well he usualy lost to Plushenko. Yagudin though usually won the 98-99 season and ended the all important 2002 season dominating, so came out looking alot better in the end. So it did feel for 2.5 of the 4 seasons Plushenko was unbeatable, despite that Yagudin ended the quad with 4 worlds (if we start at the 98 worlds and end with the 2002) and an Olympics which seems much more than Plushenko.